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Kardasz, B., Zukrowski, J., Mosendz, O., Przybylski, M., Heinrich, B., Kirschner, J.

Interface atomic structure and magnetic anisotropy in ultrathin Fe films grown by thermal deposition and pulsed laser deposition on GaAs(001)
Journal of Applied Physics 101, pp 09D110/1-3 (2007)
Thermal deposition (TD) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) techniques were used to prepare GaAs/Fe(001) crystalline ultrathin films. The magnetic environment of Fe at the Fe/GaAs(001) interface was investigated by means of conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy using an 57Fe probe layer having the equivalent thickness of two atomic layers. The magnetic anisotropies were measured using ferromagnetic resonance. PLD samples were affected by an appreciably higher degree of interface alloying compared with the TD films. The interface in-plane fourfold (cubic) anisotropy is significantly increased and the in-plane interface uniaxial anisotropy is significantly decreased in the PLD samples compared to those prepared using TD. The effective perpendicular demagnetizing field in the PLD films is significantly decreased compared to the TD samples due to an unexpected increase in the interface uniaxial perpendicular anisotropy at the Fe/Au(001) interface.